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New technology to improve cancer detection and treatment
Updated : 4 weeks ago IST
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have created a novel tool that enables doctors to skip invasive biopsy operations and to track the effectiveness of treatment by detecting and analysing cancer cells from blood samples.
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Scientists develop new design principles to improve cancer vaccine structu
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
A new way to significantly increase the potency of almost any vaccine has been developed by researchers from the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) at Northwestern University. The scientists used chemistry and nanotechnology to change the structural location of adjuvants and an
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Vaccine for cervical cancer prevention to be available in small quantity i
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Adar Poonawalla said that the availability of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine will be little in number this year, however, it would be boosted next year.
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Scientists unlock cancer's ancestry
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer's ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie dee
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Concentration of surgery improves operations for childhood cancer: Researc
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Neuroblastoma is a tumour of the sympathetic nervous system that occurs mainly in young children. Every year, 25 children in the Netherlands receive this diagnosis. Surgery to remove the tumour tissue forms an important part of the treatment plan. Since November 2014, care for children in th
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Researchers uncover new pathway for molecular cancer drug therapies
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A fundamental challenge in drug development is the balance between optimizing a drug's lock-and-key fit with its target and the drug's ability to make its way across the cellular membrane and access that target.
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Research: Women with benign breast disease are at higher risk of breast ca
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers found that women who acquire a benign breast illness diagnosis through screening have an almost doubled risk of acquiring breast cancer.
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Possible 'electrical language' of breast cancer cells discovered by resear
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Variable voltages have been discovered in the membranes of breast cancer cells, revealing information about how the cells grow and spread.
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Research: Women with benign breast disease face higher risk of breast canc
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The risk of breast cancer is almost doubled in women diagnosed with benign breast disease through screening, according to research presented at the 13th European Breast Cancer Conference.
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New discovery gives hope to fight metastatic cancer
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Cancer that splits and develops in new organs around the body becomes significantly more difficult to fight. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that these metastatic cancers, that spread from the original, adapt their metabolism to the tissue in which t
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Injections for diabetes, cancer could become unnecessary soon
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Some medications for these illnesses dissolve in water, making it impossible to carry them through the intestines, which process food and drink. As a result, these medications can't be taken by mouth. But UCR researchers have developed a chemical "tag" that can be attached to these medicatio
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Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal trials
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine induced two distinct and desirable immune system responses that led to significant tumour regression in mice, report investigators.
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